World’s first insulin pump with low glucose suspend feature showed that it reduces the time spent in the low threshold range….

Team finds medically relevant info using personalized “-omics”….

Thirty grams per day of resistant starch may improve sensitivity to insulin by 73% for men, but not women….

Obese children whose parents also participated in a weight-loss program and dropped pounds were more likely to lose weight compared with those whose parents did not slim down….

An electronic diary program helped improve overweight and obese adults’ adherence to a weight-loss regimen but the results didn’t last after 2 years….

People who don’t get enough sleep consume more calories and may be more likely to become obese….

Many genes that influence type 1 diabetes are also found in pancreatic beta cells suggesting that the insulin-producing cells play a role in why white blood cells attack the beta cells leading to type 1 diabetes, according to new research from JDRF….

The amount of medical information concerning diabetes which we receive on a daily basis from a multitude of sources is enormous. A lot of this knowledge blitz is aimed at helping you help your patients but this has led to the near impossible task of discerning which of these pieces …

A lot of times we just read the first part of a sentence and then fill in the rest mentally without realizing that we may be missing something out of the ordinary. This week our Diabetes Disaster takes a look at what happens when an older patient reads a prescription …

OTC Meds for Diabetes, Hypertension and Cholesterol – You’ve Got to Be Kidding! This week we have an interesting item (Item #3, Diabetes and Statin Meds May Become Available without a Prescription) about the FDA’s idea to make diabetes, cholesterol and hypertensive medications available over the counter. Their thought is …